Archive for November, 2009

I’ve been working with Flash for sometime now. Since University and into my professional work I have used Flash to create animations (as seen on this website) as well as flash content for numerous companies. If like you me you are not an expert, you often have to search the web to find a tutorial that shows you how to achieve what you want to do. Unfortunately many assume knowledge and can be hard to follow. Which is why over the next few week I’ll be showing you some of the little tricks I use to give my Flash that all important WOW factor.

In this post I will take you through the various steps to help you install Magento locally on your computer (iMac). To get started we need to make sure we have the following items to begin the installation process, this really only includes MAMP (helps install Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X!) and Magento. Follow the steps below and you can get Magento up and running within ten minutes.

Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) was first released in 2001 and is still being used by approximately 20% of the world. With all the competition from Chrome, Safari and Firefox, it is outdated but developers still need to make sure their sites display correctly in IE6. (more…)

No developer can easily remember the hundreds of different functions, tags, options etc for a web language and documentation can be too much to read. That’s why cheat sheets exist because they provide a quick reference for all the common tags used. (more…)

Ever heard of torrents or used Bit Torrent to download movies, music or shared files over the internet? Researchers have discovered that anyone who does use Bit Torrent to download files over the World Wide Web will most probably be monitored. Studies were carried out by Birmingham University and they have discovered that if someone [...]» more